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  • Allianz's renewable energy investment tops €1.5bn following Google deal

    06 June 2013

    Allianz Capital Partners has acquired a 72MW wind farm in northern Sweden that will supply power to Google's data centre in Finland.

  • German energy firm starts clean-tech venture capital unit

    06 June 2013

    One of Germany's leading energy companies has created a venture capital unit to invest in innovative clean technologies.

  • Sustainability reporting platforms collaborate to ease company burden

    06 June 2013

    Two sustainability reporting initiatives have agreed to align parts of their frameworks to make it easier for companies to report non-financial information.

  • Private solar trading platform launched

    05 June 2013

    An online solar photovoltaic marketplace has launched a new private trading platform for utility-scale projects.

  • OECD helping Puma with environmental accounting drive

    04 June 2013

    The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has joined Puma in its push to encourage more companies to adopt the sportswear firm's method of pricing its environmental impact.

  • Bank sells carbon firm

    03 June 2013

    A US investment bank has sold its carbon offset development firm, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • Playing the long game

    03 June 2013

    ING's Stephen Hibbert talks to Peter Cripps about the enormous potential of energy efficiency, and how he is positioning the bank to take full advantage when the market finally scales up.

  • Australian renewables firm to issue retail bond

    03 June 2013

    An Australian company has launched a bond to fund renewable energy projects.

  • Bluefield plans £150m solar PV fund float

    30 May 2013

    A UK solar PV investment fund has announced plans to raise £150 million ($228 million) in a stock market listing.

  • Novel structure helps PensionDanmark support onshore wind project

    29 May 2013

    An innovative funding structure has enabled Danish pension fund PensionDanmark to participate in the debt financing of the €336 million ($435 million) Jadraas wind farm, the largest onshore wind project in the Nordic region.